graytex *I've stumbled on some info that there may be a kayaking task in the Prague area tomorrow. Don't want to be too specific because I TAR and don't want to mess up our race!

**Blog info from one of our Prague kayakers (friend of the last guy we got info from):

06 August 2009

Over the past few days at Prague there has been heaps of people buzzing around setting up this massive rigging system over the course. First thoughts from the team were they were setting up power lines, then a big screen. As it took more shape and the removal of slalom gates at the top part of the course it was clear, a rope climb above the course for ‘The Amazing Race’. Turns out the show was filming here all day today. I had a few chats to the rigging guys and what a life they live, cruising the world to amazing places to film people! I apparently was filmed while doing my session as they were packing up the ropes etc, but wont know I guess until it comes out on TV.. One good way to get you to watch the show….

with the help of walkingpneumonia, Slowhatch, Boingo, Chateau, graytex and puddin and peach... task and photo evidence starts here

Part of an addition to the TAR 15 article on Wikipedia that I had to remove due to lack of sourcing, but provided by user Awilmot there:"On Wednesday August 5th, I have just seen 2 teams at Prague Castle, which was their pit stop. One pretty team (guy and girl in blue) and one all guy team (one with dyed hair)."

But perhaps the BEST discovery came when walkingpneumonia pointed out that this site had....WEBCAMS!! Which refresh at two minute intervals and provide an hourly archive.

After that it was really a matter of sitting back and letting puddin snag >300 pictures, which we will make available later on, after we've had some sleep!

SO WHY is this mportant you ask? The answer is is that this is the site of one of the final four tasks leading to the last elimination.

We were able to see quite a lot of production scurrying about, 4 inflatable red rafts, and eventually a team (or half team) come directly by the webcam on the way to the white water rapids downstream. A bird's eye view....

Here are a few of puddin's finest to give you a taste of what we saw!! Just be SURE not to miss the suspended cameraguys!!

All pictures taken via webam on Aug 5 between 10 and 3 PM Prague time.

We have 5-6 hours worth of screengrabs , probably 200 or more and will try to figure out how to get them all up .. maybe a slide show so you all could see how it unfolded. Sadly as mentioned by peach, the webcam was on a 2 minute delay and this is most likely why we did not see all teams

We're sure we missed a team right before this frame ..as Chateau has pointed out

So lets see if this works Ignore the May 19th date ..it was a default folder setting I guess and am too lazy too fix it The only pics I did not grab were very few in the time lapse as their was no activity I was doing BB updates at the time so some screencaps slipped in , lolSome might be duplicates ..It was fun watching as it unfolded and talking to peach on the phone the whole time .. and so sorry for dropping the F Bomb numerous times peach to the TAR Detectives

Puddin we know they are still in it (just stating what would leave me with that expression. I think saved by non elimination, and with that break we should be able to eliminate the chance of a TBC, as I don't recall any TBC having interviews between them, and if it was done at the end of a TBC (and still in it) no matter how well you did you are thrilled to be in the final three.

The decor/furnishings look like the Estates Theater in Old Town. Since Wolfie premiered Don Giovanni here, maybe they'll have to sing a little of that.

That indeed is the Estates Theatre (Stavovske Divadlo) where Mozart premiered his opera Don Giovanni in October 1787. It looks like the three teams are there together and Meghan, Flight Time, and Sam are horsing around on the stage while Cheyne, Big Easy, and Dan are looking through various boxes (the ones you sit in to watch an opera not the packing kind) hunting from something. Perhaps the box that Mozart's patroness was sitting in at his premiere. So this looks like a Roadblock.

From the this camera angle it looks like the Old Town Hall is behind them and the St. Vitus Cathedral is on the horizon, so I would guess that they may be high up on the Powder Gate or Muncipal House, both Prague landmarks and good places for the pit stop to be located. Or perhaps up on the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn which is located across the Old Town Square from the Old Town Hall (with the astronomical clock).

Last season, teams spent one day trying to get into Krasnoyarsk, and another out of Siberia and into India. The Trans-Siberian Railroad was this season's ferry to Tallinn. That's why there was a TBC in Beijing.

This season, the only really long-distance flight was Cambodia to Dubai. Thus, we'll be seeing a NEL next leg, unless there was a 36 hour pitstop before Vegas.